Chapter 16 “But he is mine after all…
Shen Qing smiled and said, “Your Highness, what a coincidence, you are here too.”
Li Daoxuan turned around and took out a bow and arrow from his back, "Unfortunately."
Just as he finished speaking, Wuming's voice came from all directions, "How is it, have you two found a way to break out of the battle?"
When Li Daoxuan heard the familiar voice, he immediately mocked, "You who dare not even show your head, why don't you just stop being a snake demon and become a turtle."
Chen Qing knew that Li Daoxuan was always arrogant, and she also knew that Wuming might have been seriously injured and hadn't recovered yet, but she really didn't expect Li Daoxuan to come up and start scolding. Her eyes widened, "Are you crazy?"
Li Daoxuan didn't even glance at her and slowly pulled out his sleeve.
Not to mention that Wuming hasn't officially confronted the two of them yet, let's say that the two of them are trapped in this dangerous formation. Before she can find a way to break it, Li Daoxuan takes the initiative to provoke the person who set up the formation. Isn't he afraid that he will get angry and tamper with the formation, putting their lives in danger?
Her original intention was to deal with Wuming first, then find a way to break the formation, and finally let Li Daoxuan deal with him. Even if he couldn't deal with Wuming, he could still drag it out until Mr. You Daozi came.
But now his actions undoubtedly intensified Wuming's anger.
Sure enough, the air was silent for a moment, and Wuming seemed to laugh out of anger, and said "good" several times.
"You're such a sharp-tongued kid! Once you get through this, let's see if you can still act so arrogant!"
As soon as the words fell, the ground around Chen Qing and Li Daoxuan suddenly shook violently, and several earth cones broke through the ground and grew wildly like bamboo shoots after rain.
If Chen Qing and Li Daoxuan had not dodged quickly, they would have been stabbed through in the next moment.
These earth cones seemed to have spirits and would chase the two men no matter where they hid.
It was as fast as an arrow, and in a flash it was at the feet of the two men. Just when the earth spike was about to pierce the sole of Li Daoxuan's shoe, he pointed his toes and jumped onto an extended tree trunk as light as a swallow.
However, Chen Qing didn't have such good skills. Seeing that she was about to be pierced through by the earth spike, Chen Qing shouted to the young man in the tree in desperation: "Your Highness, help!"
Li Daoxuan didn't seem to want to help. He sat on the tree, one knee bent against the trunk, holding the sword in both hands, looking at her leisurely, with a smile in his eyes as if he was watching a show.
Chen Qing didn't expect that Li Daoxuan had no intention of helping her at all. The earth cone was approaching her. Chen Qing gritted her teeth and quickly turned around. She took out the blasting talisman from her hand and threw it forward. She chanted a spell and activated the talisman paper.
There was a loud bang, and the earth cones that rushed in front of him exploded instantly. Countless small pieces of earth were blown out from the dust and smoke, rolling to the ground. Chen Qing was also hit by the blasting talisman and had bruises on his face.
She wiped the blood from her cheek and looked at the person watching the show leisurely on the tree, and suddenly became angry.
However, before she could think about it, the earth cones that had been blown up before rushed out again, even more than before.
At this moment, Chen Qing suddenly remembered Wuming's provocative voice in her mind: "They say true love is revealed in times of adversity, but now it seems that your lover doesn't care about you very much."
Chen Qing hadn't expected that Wuming would actually sow discord right under Li Daoxuan's nose. Now, upon hearing this, she actually pretended to wipe away two crocodile tears, "You're right, all men are bad."
Wuming's voice became even more excited. "How about this? I'll hold these earth cones for you, you trick him down, and then I'll control the earth cones to kill him and avenge you."
Chen Qing seemed a little moved, but then frowned and said: "But, but he is mine after all..."
Wuming interrupted her, "Who says a woman can only be with one man in her life? Look, didn't the Li Dynasty have an empress a few years ago? She still had a horde of male favorites and beautiful servants around her, and didn't people say anything?"
Chen Qing seemed to have listened to his words. She hesitated for only a moment, then finally gritted her teeth and frowned, "Okay! I promise you!"
After he finished speaking, the earth cone on the ground suddenly stopped moving and retracted into the ground with a whoosh.
Chen Qing took a deep breath, and with a forced smile, he said to the man in the tree, "Your Highness, I have broken this formation. Could you please come down?"
Li Daoxuan suddenly said, "You are so capable, why do you come to me for help?"
Chen Qing narrowed his eyes and said, "It's just a precaution. What if this talisman paper suddenly stops working?"
Li Daoxuan said, "Madam Shen is quite modest. I see that you are full of plans and strategies, and I have never seen you fail in anything you planned."
Chen Qing pretended not to hear the innuendo in his words and said happily, "Your Highness is very kind."
The little lunatic snorted coldly and finally agreed to come down.
Chen Qing smiled and stood there watching his movements.
As expected, as soon as Li Daoxuan stepped on the ground, the earth cones that had retracted suddenly shot up into the sky, heading straight for Li Daoxuan's life.
Li Daoxuan's kung fu was not to be underestimated. After a brief and awkward dodge, he casually threw the sword in his hand into Chen Qing's hand and said, "If you want to get out, just give it to me."
Now it was Chen Qing's turn to be the leisurely spectator. She held Li Daoxuan's sword without any hesitation and watched the show happily.
With his hands free, Li Daoxuan took out a talisman from his arms and then pulled out an arrow. He put the talisman paper on the arrowhead, then held the arrow shaft in his mouth, and then drew another arrow from the quiver. He drew the bow and shot it. The arrow pierced the ground, and then he shot the arrow in his mouth.
The arrows that sank into the ground suddenly flashed with golden light, and a golden line was generated from the two arrows, expanding larger and larger, until finally, there was a muffled sound on the ground, and the golden light completely spread out, forming a large spider web on the ground, and the earth cone that originally attacked Li Daoxuan also stopped moving.
After doing all this, Li Daoxuan turned back, reached out to Chen Qing, and looked at him with a serious look.
For a moment, Chen Qing thought he was going to beat her up, but then she realized he was asking for her sword. She smiled awkwardly and handed it to him.
Wuming fell silent in his mind. Chen Qing tilted his head and betrayed Wuming without hesitation: "Your Highness, it was Wuming who tricked me into bringing you down. I didn't do it of my own accord. He said he wanted to use this formation to kill you."
Having said this, she raised her eyes and glanced around, "Now it seems that this stinking snake is not only arrogant, but also conceited. It actually thinks that a mere formation-breaking technique can do anything to us."
A gleam flashed across Li Daoxuan's eyes, and he snorted, "It is indeed a formation-breaking technique, but it is not even as good as the level of this king's casual practice when he was ten years old."
Wuming shouted angrily, "You two are truly deceitful and arrogant, and you! I was actually deceived by you! I will definitely suck your blood dry and peel off your flesh in one go!"
Chen Qing shrank her neck, "I'm so scared!"
However, after waiting for a long time, Wuming did not show up to confront the two of them. Instead, he laughed in anger and said, "We'll talk about it after you two can get out alive."
After he finished speaking, Wuming was silent.
Chen Qing and Li Daoxuan immediately exchanged a glance. Through previous verification, they both knew one fact: Wuming did not dare to show up in the formation. He was afraid of something inside the formation.
What was he afraid of? When he recalled Wuming's voice, Shen Qing realized that Li Daoxuan's previous provocation of Wuming was not a hot-headed act, but a deliberate one.
He was deliberately provoking Wuming in order to verify whether Wuming really did not dare to enter the battle formation.
Ever since Chen Qing stepped into the formation in the Lishan forest, Wuming has never appeared again, and has been using telepathy from beginning to end.
At first, Chen Qing might have thought that he was afraid of Li Daoxuan.
Thinking of this, Chen Qing suddenly asked Li Daoxuan, "I wonder who is stronger, His Royal Highness Cang Wang or Wuming?"
Li Daoxuan: "For now, they are evenly matched."
That's it. Li Daoxuan was in a formation that Wuming was familiar with, and was injured for killing Huanxi Jing. No matter how you look at it, it was a good time and place for him to take action to eliminate the enemy, but Wuming just didn't want to show up.
So there is only one possibility, he doesn't dare, or is afraid of the formation he set up, so he doesn't dare to come in rashly.
Li Daoxuan put the bow behind him, but Chen Qing noticed that there was an imperceptible dark stain on the bottom of his robe, which seemed to be the mark left by the hem of his robe accidentally brushing against the water when he passed through a wetland.
Thinking of the locust tree forest she had passed by earlier and the earth cone formation she had just dealt with, Shen Qing's breathing suddenly tightened. A vague idea gradually took shape. She immediately grabbed Li Daoxuan's wrist and asked, "Where did you come from just now, Your Highness?"
Li Daoxuan couldn't understand why the person in front of him was suddenly so excited. He said, "The West."
"Is there any water source there?"
Li Daoxuan lowered his eyes and looked at her. The girl's cheeks were flushed with excitement, and the light in her eyes was surprisingly bright. He slowly said, "There is a small pond."
Hearing this, Shen Qing became even more excited. She immediately raised her eyes and clapped her hands, saying, "It's done!"
Li Daoxuan asked her: "What happened?"
Chen Qing: "Your Highness, have you ever heard of the Three Principles and Five Directions?"
After pondering for a while, Li Daoxuan immediately understood. He looked at the girl in front of him with some surprise, and said for the first time: "You are smart." This time it was no longer a sarcasm.
To be precise, the formation in front of us cannot be considered the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues Formation, but rather an evil formation adapted from the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues Formation.
The Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, the five directions refer to the east, west, south, north and center, and the five elements corresponding to the five directions are wood, metal, fire, water and earth.
The Three Principles are: Heaven, Earth, and Man. Mount Li's land serves as its foundation, while Heaven provides its roof. The entire formation is enclosed within this. Now, the three elements of Heaven, Earth, and Man are fully present within the formation.
The Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues Formation was in place, preventing any monster from escaping. It might not have been able to trap Wuming in his prime, but it was certainly enough to hold him, now that he'd lost a head and was still seriously injured.
This formation was originally intended to trap evil spirits, but was tampered with by Wuming. The original southern fire land was turned into a locust tree forest that attracts evil spirits, thus breaking the yin and yang of the formation. This made the formation even more mysterious and filled with evil spirits.
This formation became an evil formation that could trap humans, demons, and spirits.
Chen Qing smiled and bowed pretentiously, "Then I'll trouble Your Highness to lead me south. The way to break the formation is in the south."
To be precise, it was the locust tree forest where we came from before.
Wuming used the locust tree to modify the formation, turning it from a formation that was originally used to trap evil spirits into an evil formation with no taboos. The idea was indeed bold, but he missed a trick.
Fire can overcome metal and can also burn wood.
Since the five elements are in disorder, let the locust tree forest turn into a fire forest, and let the southern attribute return to its rightful place. In this way, this will be an authentic Three Principles and Five Directions Formation, a righteous formation that only traps demons and evil spirits, not humans.
After the battle just now, the fog gradually drifted into the forest, making people lose their direction, and the wind blowing on their bodies completely stopped, but the treetops at the end of the forest were still rustling, proving that the wind had not stopped, but was just blowing higher.
Li Daoxuan drew an arrow from his quiver, drew his bow, and aimed it at the sky. The arrow's feathers cut through the mist, and flew to the highest point with a dazzling golden light. After the arrow stopped briefly, it fell in a certain direction.
That direction was exactly where the wind was blowing, and it was also the south that the two were looking for.
Without saying a word, Chen Qing pulled Li Daoxuan forward. In her excitement, she unconsciously uttered the name she used to call in her previous life, "Li Daoxuan, let's go!"
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